CutTools: a program implementing the OPP reduction method to compute one-loop amplitudes
Authors
Giovanni Ossola, Costas G. Papadopoulos, Roberto Pittau
Abstract
We present a program that implements the OPP reduction method to extract the coefficients of the one-loop scalar integrals from a user defined (sub)-amplitude or Feynman Diagram, as well as the rational terms coming from the 4-dimensional part of the numerator. The rational pieces coming from the epsilon-dimensional part of the numerator are treated as an external input, and can be computed with the help of dedicated tree-level like Feynman rules.
Possible numerical instabilities are dealt with the help of arbitrary precision routines, that activate only when needed.